Biltmore

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The byname of the Biltmore Estate and many things associated with it.

    "George Vanderbilt’s 250-room Biltmore House — a grand Gilded Age chateau and America’s largest home — first welcomed family and friends in 1895."

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"George Vanderbilt’s 250-room Biltmore House — a grand Gilded Age chateau and America’s largest home — first welcomed family and friends in 1895."

Etymology

Coined by George Washington Vanderbilt II from (Vander)bilt + -more (“moor”, a common suffix in English surnames). Not a surname in itself.

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